In the summer of 1969, Roberta Price and her boyfriend packed up their Corvair camper and headed west from New York. They'd heard about communes in Colorado and New Mexico, where hippies were living off the land, and they wanted to see these experimental communities for themselves. Price took along her camera to document the trip. By the following summer, the young couple were married and living in Libre, a commune in the Huerfano Valley not far from Walsenberg. For the next seven years, Price continued to take photographs, and she's now published a selection of those images in "Across the Great Divide: A Photo Chronicle of the Counterculture." She talks to Ryan Warner.
[Libre flatbed on alfalfa run to Pueblo, Colorado, fall 1972. Photograph copyright (c) 2004, 2010, Roberta Price]
[Jam session, Lower Farm, Placitas. Photograph copyright (c) 2004, 2010, Roberta Price]
[Dome complex, Drop City. Copyright (c) 2004, 2010, Roberta Price.]
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[Sandy and the Humpmobile. Copyright (c) 2004, 2010, Roberta Price.]
